PEOPLE “The great communicators”

We can communicate whit other people in many different

Ways. We can talk and write, and we can send messages

Whit our hands and faces. There is also the phone (including

the mobile!), the fax, and e-mail. Television, film, painting,

And photography can also communicate ideas.

Animals have way of exchanging information, too. Bees

Dance and tell other bees where to find food. Elephants

Make sounds that humans can´t hear. Whales sing songs.

but this is nothing compared to what people can do. We have

language – about 6000 languages, in fact. We can write

poetry, tell jokes, make promises, explain, persuade, tell

the truth, or tell lies. And we have a sense of past and

future, not just present

Communication technologies were very important in the

Development of all the great ancient societies:

- Around 2900 BC, paper and hieroglyphics transformed

Egyptian life.

- The ancient Greeks loved the spoken word. The were

very good at public speaking, drama, and philosophy.

- The Romans developed a unique system of government

That depended on the Roma a lphabet.

- In the 14 th century, the printing press helped develop

new ways of thinking across Europe.

Radio, film, and television have had huge influence on

society in the last hundred years. And now we have the

Internet, which is infinite. But what is this doing to us?

we can give and get a lot information very quickly. But

there is so much information that it is difficult to know

what is important and what isn´t. Modern media is changing our

world every of every day.